| | Central team discusses relief package with CS | | Flood-hit areas of Reasi inspected | | | SRINAGAR, Oct 19: The team sent by the Central Government to review the situation on ground in the flood- hit Jammu and Kashmir, today held meeting with Chief Secretary, Mohammad Iqbal Khandey here.
Principal Secretary, Planning and Development, B R Sharma, Principal Secretary, Finance, B B Vyas, Principal Secretary, Home, Suresh Kumar, Principal Secretary PDD, A K Mehta, DGP, K Rajendra, all administrative secretaries and senior officers were ... |  | |
| | | Pak ‘breaches’ truce in Pargwal, targets Indian BoPs on IB | | | | JAMMU, Oct 19: Pakistan Rangers Sunday breached truce at the International Border by resorting to small arms firing on forward Border Outposts (BoPs) in Pargwal sector of Jammu district.
“Pakistani Rangers resorted to small arms firing at BoPs along IB in Pargwal sectors of Jammu district around 1030 hours this morning,” District Magistrate of Jammu Ajeet Kumar Sahu said.
“Their aim was to prevent farmers from harvesting their crops,” he claim... | | |
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| | J&K polls decision in few days: Sampath | | | | NEW DELHI, Oct 19: Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath on Sunday said the decision on holding polls in Jammu and Kashmir will be taken in the next few days.
He said discussions with political parties, police and other government bodies in the state are on to assess the level of preparedness in case the Election Commission decides to go ahead with the polls in January.
"We have to do further deliberation and consultation among ourselves as ... | | |
| | | Aziz speaks to UN chief, raises K-issue | | | | ISLAMABAD, Oct 19 (Agencies): Continuing its attempts to internationalise the Kashmir issue, Pakistan has raised the matter with the UN chief, saying the world body's engagement would add to its credibility in managing crisis situations.
Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz spoke to UN chief Ban Ki-moon on phone last night and discussed the situation along the LoC and the International Border with I... | | |
| | | Hurriyat-G condemns detention of prisoners | | | | SRINAGAR, Oct 19: While terming the government’s policy with regard to prisoners, who are not being released despite the court orders in their favour as ‘illegal and cruel’, Hurriyat Conference (G) Sunday strongly condemned this.
In a statement a spokesman of Hurriyat (G) said the allegations leveled against the innocent youths and students of Baramullah which include Faizan Ahmad Tantray, Fayaz Ahmah Kumhar, Majid Ahmad Shaikh, Abdul Qayoom Na... | | |
| | | Mufti for channelizing youth power for building new J&K | | ‘Modi should take lead in defusing tension along borders’ | | | SRINAGAR, Oct 19: PDP Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said the heroic, humanitarian and compassionate spirit that has been on display in Kashmir during the last month’s devastating floods reassures us that, at critical moments, people of Jammu and Kashmir are able to come together in pursuit of a common purpose.
Addressing a joint convention of PDP workers from Handwara, Langate and Kargil assembly segments here, Mufti said while unprecedent... | | |
| | | Kargil `powerless’ for last 7 days | | | | KARGIL, Oct 19: For the last few days Kargil is without electricity. Chutuk hydel Power Station is not generating power as all the four turbines of the hydel project are not working after suffering extensive damages.
Talking to media, the Chief Engineer Chutuk hydel project Biswas Basu said that the turbines in Chutuk hydel project called as Francis type turbine needed 70 percent of the total load and in Kargil during summer the load was 2-3 p... | | |
| | | Kashmir floods leave people shattered, miserable-I | | | | SRINAGAR, Oct 19: While looking silently towards her destroyed house Shaheena of Lasjan area is still not ready to accept that it is her home which has been reduced to rubble by devastating floods. For
Shaheena and her family their house meant an entire world to them. However, today the reality is that like thousands of other families this family too has been rendered homeless.
“Our house was completely destroyed and everything turned into mud... | | |
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| New CD block row | | Protestors block Kupwara NHW | | | | SRINAGAR, Oct 19: Protest demonstration was held by the inhabitants of the upper Qaziabad-Ashipora to press for their demand of CD block status.
Reports said hundreds of people from North Kashmiris Upper Qaziabad area assembled at Karlgund near Baramulllah-Kupwara Highway and staged massive demonstration to press for their demand of CD block status to the Upper Qaziabad Ashipora.
Protestors said although the government had sanctioned the Niaba... | | |
| | | Cong leader held for posting threatening remarks on Fb | | | | JAMMU, Oct 19: The joint secretary of state unit of Congress has been arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police and later released on bail, for posting threatening remarks against two individuals on their Facebook page.
Police said Salman Nizami, Joint Secretary of state unit of the party was arrested yesterday in connection with a two-month-old FIR in which two residents of his native town in Doda had lodged a criminal complaint against him.
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| | | Jitendra meets Vohra | | | | SRINAGAR, Oct 19: Union Minister of State for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences Dr Jitendra Singh Sunday called on Governor N N Vohra, here at the Raj Bhavan.
Dr Singh discussed with the Governor the ongoing relief and rehabilitation work in the Valley on account of recent floods and issues relating to the Pakistan firing, shelling at International Border and the Line of Control in the Jammu region. They also discussed existing issues relati... | | |
| | | Madan demands recruitment on the basis of population | | Uniform combined test is not appropriate | | | AKHNOOR Oct 19: Madan Lal Sharma, former Minister & MP demanded more seats and recruitment of Doctors, Engineers and other Technical wings for Jammu region on the basis of population and hilly,tough terrain .
He said that uniform combined test is not appropriate and there should be separate recruitment for Jammu Region in view of it being thickly populated . He said this while addressing a series of Public meetings at Nai Basti Palwan, Pangari... | | |
| | | Bollywood stars join hands to raise funds for Kashmir | | | | NEW DELHI, Oct 19: From Aamir Khan and Anupam Kher to Shaan, several film and music personalities joined hands for a special concert to raise awareness and funds for the flood victims of Kashmir and Assam.
Titled 'Hum Hain.. Umeed-e-Kashmir', the event, held last evening, was an initiative of the entertainment industry led by the Event and Entertainment Management Association (EEMA), the Film and Television Producers Guild and Zee.
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| | Closure of state ambitious Rattle HEP | | Saroori demands early start of work on Rattle power project Drabshallah | | | | KISHTWAR, Oct 19: Senior Leader and Congress MLA from Inderwal, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori today demanded immediate start of work on 850 MW Rattle power Project Drabshallah without further delay.
“Prime responsibility of any delay in starting the project lies on GVK, as they are the principal company who win the project bid”, Saroori said and asked GVK officials to immediately sought out the issue if any with L&T on its own; without making any loc... | | |
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